ixgbe_store_key(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 ixgbe_store_key(9) — the Kernel API Manual, bestie edition 🎀

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual (ixgbe_store_key(9)) and it's genuinely so straightforward it's almost cute. it does exactly one thing and it does it slayfully. let's get into it ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

ixgbe_store_key — write the RSS key to HW. that's it. that's the whole job. no cap, she's a one-trick pony and she's iconic for it 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

void ixgbe_store_key (struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter );

like… look at her. no return value, one argument, zero drama 🫶

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

  • adapter — the device handle, aka literally the whole personality of the operation. this is the thing that carries the RSS key around, so you're gonna want a valid one, bestie 🙈

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the vibe: ixgbe_store_key writes the RSS key that's chilling inside adapter.rss_key out to the hardware. that's the entire plot. the key lives in the adapter struct, the function pushes it into HW, and everyone goes home happy 🌈

it's giving "glorified memcpy but make it hardware" and honestly? we respect it. main character energy in the most minimal way possible 💖

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

💜 the source file itself

  • Kernel file ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c

like yeah, the real ones always read the source. iykyk 📖

⭐ all the friends in the same friend group

like wow, that's a whole group chat right there 😭 go read them, they're all slay, i promise 💖

lowkey a reminder that reading the friends of a function is how you actually understand the function. no cap 🧚

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🍓 this lil rewrite comes to you from the source path ./drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i... and it's dated October 2026 — so mark your calendars and stan ixgbe_store_key(9) forever, periodt 🔥👑

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